Rethinking trash

No, that title isn’t an invitation to smoke a bowl and have a listen to Appetite for Destruction.

It’s a reference to this little gizmo:

How many times have you deleted something only to need it later. All the recovery software in the world might not bring it back and so we need a better solution. The Tempo hard drive looks like a recycling bin because that’s exactly what it is. Anytime you delete files from your computer, those files actually move to the Tempo. When the green ring lights up, it’s time to check and make sure you REALLY want these files gone FOREVER.

Of course, built-in solutions like Apple’s Time Machine will making something like this useless but for older computers, it may be a good idea.

It may be a good idea if you are not a member of Al Qaeda or a collector of pornography. If you are either of those two things, I encourage you to just keep moving. Nothing to see here. If you’re both of those things, well, interesting. You have some things to work out.

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